He’s also not for turning on his proposed changes to taxing unrealised capital gains on superannuation accounts above $3 ...

When Sussan Ley selected her frontbench in May, she replaced Jacinta Nampijinpa Price as shadow Indigenous Australians minister with Kerrynne Liddle. The choice was a symbolic step in Ley’s centrist ...

Gail Jones’s eleventh novel, The Name of the Sister, opens with a freelance journalist, Angie, watching a catalogue of miseries on the evening news. Her attention is caught by two successive items ...

A leaked transcript of a Liberal Women’s Council meeting highlights the challenges facing Sussan Ley over women’s representation ...

So it was on Sunday when news broke that US planes had bombed three nuclear sites in Iran. No Australian cabinet minister fronted up with a comment (a blessing of Sunday). The press gallery doyen, ...

Gabriële Buffet met Francis Picabia on a warm autumn evening in Verseilles in 1908. She was a gifted musician, he a successful painter like Gabriële’s brother Jean. Jean was taking his friend to meet ...

Blake Bailey’s fall from grace was precipitous. After years of trying, he had finally made it. Yes, he had written a memoir and well-received biographies of American literary titans Richard Yates, ...

The warehouses of Hobart’s Old Wharf were built where vessels disembarked many of the 67,000 convicts transported to Van Diemen’s Land from Britain, Ireland and other parts of the British Empire.

Outlining his government’s “positive and ambitious agenda” at the National Press Club last week, Anthony Albanese reiterated a series of health policy commitments made during the election campaign: ...

The American bestseller Abundance is making waves in Australia, but its key argument has less force on this side of the Pacific ...

There are so many affinities between Johnson and the Clever Man that there is no real doubt the story was inspired by Johnson’s visit in 1948. While in Arnhem Land, Johnson carried out a survey of ...

In a sweeping introduction to his 1958 book Australian Democracy the Melbourne political scientist A.F. Davies notoriously claimed that “the characteristic talent of Australians is not for ...